Somoto
Somoto is a city and a municipality located in the hills of northern Nicaragua, and capital of the department of Madriz. It is around 20 km south-west of Ocotal and 51 km north-west of Estelí.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 20,900 residents
- Description: city in Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Somoto, Madriz”, “Somoto, Nicaragua”, “Villa de Santiago de los Caballeros de Somoto Grande”, and “Xomotepetl”
Somoto
- Categories: municipality of Nicaragua and locality
- Location: Madriz Department, Northern Highlands, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
13.4837° or 13° 29′ 1″ northLongitude
-86.5826° or 86° 34′ 57″ westPopulation
20,900Elevation
683 metres (2,241 feet)United Nations Location Code
NI SOMOpen location code
765MFCM8+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 2773644825OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Somoto” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوموتو، نيكاراغوا”
- Asturian: “Somoto”
- Basque: “Somoto”
- Belarusian: “Самота”
- Bengali: “সমোতো”
- Bulgarian: “Сомото”
- Catalan: “Somoto”
- Cebuano: “Somoto”
- Chinese: “Somoto”
- Chinese: “索莫托”
- Danish: “Somoto”
- Dimli (individual language): “Somoto, Madriz”
- Dimli (individual language): “Somoto”
- Dutch: “Somoto”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوموتو”
- Esperanto: “Somoto”
- Finnish: “Somoto”
- French: “Somoto”
- Georgian: “სომოტო”
- German: “Somoto”
- Greek: “Σομότο”
- Gujarati: “સોમોટો”
- Hebrew: “סומוטו”
- Hindi: “सोमोटो”
- Indonesian: “Somoto”
- Italian: “Somoto”
- Japanese: “ソモト”
- Kannada: “ಸೋಮೊಟೊ”
- Korean: “소모토”
- Latvian: “Somota”
- Latvian: “Somoto”
- Lithuanian: “Somotas”
- Malay: “Somoto”
- Marathi: “सोमोतो”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Somoto”
- Moksha: “Сомота”
- Moksha: “Сомото”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Somoto”
- Ossetian: “Сомото”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Somoto”
- Polish: “Somoto”
- Portuguese: “Somoto”
- Russian: “Сомото”
- Serbian: “Сомото”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Somoto”
- Sinhala: “සොමොටෝ”
- Slovenian: “Somoto”
- Spanish: “Somoto”
- Swedish: “Somoto”
- Tamil: “சோமோடோ”
- Telugu: “సొమొటో”
- Thai: “โซโมโต”
- Turkish: “Somoto”
- Ukrainian: “Сомото”
- Urdu: “سوموتو، مادریس”
- Vietnamese: “Somoto”
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